Analysis of Families Will Mourn



Warrior bold, slip on your armoured smile,
take away another life with a sigh,
be quick, it will only haunt for awhile,
look deep within eyes that flicker then die.

Take away another life with a sigh,
murdering brethren in the name of God,
look deep within eyes that flicker then die,
skin will waste slowly on top of the sod.

Murdering brethren in the name of God,
families will mourn in another time,
skin will waste slowly on top of the sod,
perhaps they will forgive you of this crime.

Families will mourn in another time,
move on from that death to one more sweet life,
perhaps they will forgive you of this crime,
kill it with passion, with bullet or knife.

Move on from that death to one more sweet life,
be quick, it will only haunt for awhile,
kill it with passion, with bullet or knife.
warrior bold, slip on your armoured smile.

The pantoum is a rare form of poetry similar to a villanelle. It is composed of a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. This pattern continues for any number of stanzas, until the final stanza, which usually contains the first and third lines of the first stanza as its second and fourth lines. Often, the final stanza's fourth line is the poem's first, and the third line of the poem may or may not appear as the second line of the final stanza. Ideally, the meaning of lines shifts when they are repeated although the words remain exactly the same: this can be done by shifting punctuation, punning, or simply recontextualizing.The pantoum is originally Malayan and is adopted infrequently to English.


Scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD DEDE EAEA x
Poetic Form
Metre 100111111 1010101101 1111101101 1101111011 1010101101 1001000111 1101111011 1111011101 1001000111 1001100101 1111011101 0111011111 1001100101 1111111111 0111011111 1111011011 1111111111 1111101101 1111011011 100111111 0110111100100101110110101101001111101010101011101110010110101100101010110000101011101101110011100101111011001110101111011010110101001001011111101010101010011111110010111011101000010010100100110
Characters 1,604
Words 294
Sentences 13
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 61
Words per line (avg) 14
Letters per stanza (avg) 215
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Submitted on June 04, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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